The Department is looking for a backbone agency that will design and execute a process for selecting key community organizations through a mini-grant process to address community needs with a range of services and/or programs that will help Delaware implement standards for systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs and help meet the Title V state and national performance measure goals. This RFP seeks a contractor to serve as the backbone organization to subcontract, support and manage the key organizations directly delivering the needed interventions. The awarded contractor will support the Department through facilitation and project management to implement the Family SHADE initiative mini-grant project that will provide grants for 3 subcontractor organizations (community based and other stakeholder organizations) by March 2026. The contractor will use a collective impact approach to ensure the subcontractors are fully engaged around intent and have the capacity to successfully implement interventions to address the Maternal Child Health Title V national performance measures for the CYSHCN population. The contractor will provide operational oversight (administrative and financial) and technical assistance to the subcontractor’s projects on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Family Health Systems, Maternal Child Health. The awarded contractor will meet the following essential core functions: Establish a sustainable financing mechanism for supporting the implementation of promising interventions (through an established “mini grant” process) and the provision of needed planning and evaluation Provide administrative and fiscal resource support to the subcontracting organizations and the ongoing measurement and evaluation of impacts. Provide lead administrative staff support to the Family SHADE Family Leadership Network (FLN) members to provide subject matter expertise and guidance through lived experiences for the Family SHADE project and on mini-grant projects. Provide technical assistance to the selected “mini grant” organizations on topics such as data collection/tracking measures and reporting, budgeting and continuous quality improvement.
